I’m looking to buy an iPhone 15 when it comes out. For those that also have a Pixel, what are some things that each phone does completely better than the other?
I was thinking of using the iPhone as a phone first, and having the Pixel as just a Personal Smart Device that I can use to do sideloading, emulation, file organizing, and other productivity and entertainment stuff, maybe even social media like having Mastadon and Lemmy there, maybe Signal too.
Whereas I’ll have the iPhone for calling, texting, streaming, CarPlay, News, and Apple Watch stuff.
What are some other things I can segment?
(There’s a lot of content and apps available on both, but I’m wanting to know if there’s anything that’s visibly or marginally better on either device that you’ve noticed)
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iPhone 14 Pro Max (work), Pixel 6 Pro (personal), literally zero reason to have both, my work phone is company owned, otherwise I’d never run both. The iPhone does nothing the Pixel doesnt, can’t be customized or actually tweaked in any way. People can argue the cameras, but the Pixel takes great pics too.
Can’t see a rationale for using a totally locked down phone vs one that will literally do anything you want.
Other than for use with your apple watch, I don’t understand why you would want twa carry around an iPhone in addition to an Android phone. Why do you prefer to use the iPhone for texting, streaming, news or CarPlay (instead of Android auto)?
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Outside of the popular streaming apps, I’ve found streaming apps to be a lot better and less buggy on Apple devices.
Waze has some of its functionality taken away on Android Auto.
And since I’ll be uninstalling the phone app on my Pixel, I was going to use the Phone and Messages app for regular texting, that’s a preferential thing. I’d use Signal but it doesn’t do SMS anymore.
I do it for work. Get the best of both worlds I guess.
I never understood the all or nothing approach. I use grapheneOS as my daily drive for work, and have multiple profiles for each of my needs. That’s probably all you need, however I do have an iPhone (lots of !y family do imessage and we are sadly in the ecosystem I use apple music for example. I like also some apps more on iOS. Especially for mastodon, but even for Lemmy apple has some great apps. Again I don’t think you need two devices, especially when you use profiles. But I do see why iOS is attractive and used alongside. IPads is another big use, no android tablet comes close.
I have been dual wielding the Android/iPhone combo for the last 10 years. I use my iPhone for iMessage, Facetime, Apple Pay, and when my Android is dead. And it works wonderfully with my Apple watch and Airpods when I’m working out. I use my Android for everything else. So my Android is my main device and my iPhone is secondary.
If I used an IPhone my approach would just be to get the cheapest smallest version which is the SE, and it’d just be to use imessage for blue bubbles and Apple wallet.
For that reason I wish there was a ipod nano sized iPhone.
This makes no sense. Too much money and not enough sense?
Just use the android? Only thing Apple does better than android is camera and doing professional photography using a phone camera is pretty nonesensical anwat
I have an iPhone as my only phone, and a Pixel sitting in a closet. Not sure why I’d want to use both. Emulation on mobile isn’t something I do anymore, but if I did, it is possible to sideload on iOS with some extra effort. It’s not as easy as Android, but I’d say it’s worth considering before deciding to go with two phones.
You can use either the official Apple sanctioned way, where you manually install via Xcode every few weeks or pay $100/year for a dev certificate, OR use something like SideStore. No jailbreaking required.
